Self-Organization and Clinical Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Synergetics in Psychology: Basic Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Application of Synergetics to Clinical Psychology

      • Günter Schiepek, Wolfgang Tschacher

      Pages 3-31

   3. Synergetics in Psychology

      • Hermann Haken

      Pages 32-54

   4. Chaos in Health and Disease — Phenomenology and Theory

      • Uwe an der Heiden

      Pages 55-87

   5. Chaos and Disorder

      • Karl W. Kratky

      Pages 88-101

   6. Instability and Cognitive Order Formation: Self-Organization Principles, Psychological Experiments, and Psychotherapeutic Interventions

      • Peter Kruse, Michael Stadler, Boris Pavleković, Vladimir Gheorghiu

      Pages 102-117

3. Simulation and Empirically Based Models of Self-Organizing Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Simulation of Psychological Processes: Basic Issues and an Illustration Within the Etiology of a Depressive Disorder

      • Harald Schaub, Günter Schiepek

      Pages 121-149

   3. Simulating Clinical Processes by Population Dynamics

      • Jürgen Kriz

      Pages 150-162

   4. Synergetics in Psychiatry — Simulation of Evolutionary Patterns of Schizophrenia on the Basis of Nonlinear Difference Equations

      • Günter Schiepek, Wolfgang Schoppek, Felix Tretter

      Pages 163-194

   5. Dynamical Systems and the Development of Schizophrenic Symptoms — An Approach to a Formalization

      • Brigitte Ambühl, Rudolf Dünki, Luc Ciompi

      Pages 195-203

   6. Psychiatric Disorders: Are They “Dynamical Diseases”?

      • Hinderk Emrich, Charlotte Hohenschutz

      Pages 204-212

   7. Using Multivariate Time Series Models in Systemic Analysis

      • Klaus Ackermann, Uta Streit, Hansjörg Ebell, Arno Steitz, Ilse M. Zalaman, Dirk Revenstorf

      Pages 213-228

   8. Interactional Bifurcations in Human Interaction — A Formal Approach

      • Otto Rössler

      Pages 229-236

4. Self-Organizing Processes in Psychotherapy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237

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   2. Synergetics of Psychotherapy

      • Günter Schiepek, Bernd Fricke, Peter Kaimer

      Pages 239-267

   3. Theories of Self-Organizing Processes and the Contribution of Immediate Interaction to Change in Psychotherapy

      • Henri Schneider

      Pages 268-282

   4. System-Theoretical Prerequisites Concerning Paradoxical Intervention

      • Arno Schöppe, Ewald Johannes Brunner

      Pages 283-295

   5. GOLEM — Two Adaptive Systems Communicate

      • Hansjörg Znoj

      Pages 296-313

Self-organization and clinical psychology signals the advent of a new paradigm in psychology. Physicists, neuroscientists and individual and grouptherapists have joined forces to elucidate the new and exciting advances that are being achieved by applying the concepts of non-linear dynamics and self-organization to the human nervous system and the mind.

• clinical psychology
• nervous system
• psychology
• self-organization

• Sozialpsychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Bern, Switzerland

  Wolfgang Tschacher

• Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie, Universität Bamberg, Bamberg, Fed. Rep. of Germany

  Günter Schiepek

• Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft I, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany

  Ewald Johannes Brunner

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